Acclimation cost of common environmental stress to copepod tigriopus japonicus

Abstract

Arthropogenic stress and climate change pose major challenges to survivorship of organisms. Acclimation to these changes often incurred energy costs to organisms and led to decrease in fitness. This presentation will make use of two studies, using copepod Tigriopus japonicus, to examine whether development of resistance to two common stressors (copper and thermal stress) can be acquired and whether fitness cost is involved. T. japonicus inhabits shallow supratidal tidepools that subject to extreme environmental conditions and has good tolerances to a wide ...